A biography of Italian dramatist Giovanni Verga and analysis of his works.

Meet Giovanni Verga.

Verga, Giovanni: 1840-1922, Italian novelist, b. Sicily. He abandoned the study of law for literature and wrote several novels of passion in the style of the French realists. His later works, written in a different style, are marked by simplicity and strict accuracy. They deal with the Sicilian middle class and sympathetically treat the poverty and struggles of the peasantry. Verga's technique ...